War Stories

The war correspondent trails clouds of glory. The names of the pioneers of the trade are stardust: Ernest Hemingway, Alexander Dumas, Henry Villard, Winston Churchill, Stephen Crane, John Reed, Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling, Richard Harding Davis, John Dos Passos, John Steinbeck, Jack London, George Orwell, Philip Gibbs, Luigi Barzini.

The names from World War I, Korea, and Vietnam, the Gulf War, and Kosovo are likewise as redolent of adventure and derring-do, with photojournalists and radio and television commentators crowding the pantheon.

Through the notebooks, photographs, headlines, wires, telegrams, and satellite uplinks, Harold Evans describes the times in which these uniquely dedicated men and women worked, and the means through which, sometimes at the cost of their own lives, they retold the most immediate stories of war.

Harold Evans Harold Evans is the author of two critically acclaimed best-selling histories of America: The American Century and They Made America: From the Steam Engine to the Search Engine: Two Centuries of Innovators. This book was the basis for a four-part documentary of the same title on PBS, which he wrote. It is also being adapted into a college curriculum. He is editor at large of The Week magazine, and moderates The Week's panel discussions with political and economic leaders